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Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop Wittenberg 1515 - 1586
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Description
- Lucas Cranach the Younger
- Portrait of Martin Luther
- signed with the device of the winged serpent and dated at middle left 1546
- oil on panel
Provenance
With Findlay Galleries, Chicago (as by Lucas Cranach, the Elder) from whom purchased in 1944 by
Ruth McC. Maitland;
Mr. and Mrs. John Gilbert Dean, Rhode Island;
Thence by descent in the family.
Ruth McC. Maitland;
Mr. and Mrs. John Gilbert Dean, Rhode Island;
Thence by descent in the family.
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Art Galleries of the University of California; San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor, California Collects: North and South, January 20-April 6, 1958;
Los Angeles, Art Galleries of the University of California, Ruth McC. Maitland Collection, October 5-November 1, 1959;
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 1980, on loan.
Los Angeles, Art Galleries of the University of California, Ruth McC. Maitland Collection, October 5-November 1, 1959;
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 1980, on loan.
Catalogue Note
We are grateful to Dr. Werner Schade for confirming this painting to be by Cranach the Younger and his workshop, based on photographs.
This lot is accompanied by photocopies of letters from Max Friedländer, dated 1927, and W. R. Valentiner, dated 1944, ascribing the portrait to Lucas Cranach the Elder.